Glass Spirituality Necklace: Agnostic

Jenny Gaynor

Always Questioning

When it comes to spirituality, be proud of where you stand, even if you're not sure where that is yet! Even agnostics can wear a symbol of their spirituality with this beautifully hand crafted necklace.

Artist Jenny Gaynor. creates each one using traditional Muranese glassworking techniques, first creating a brass mold and then using it to stamp a colorful piece of cerulean molten glass. Adorning the 24kt gold-filled chain are nine aquamarine beads, the birthstone of March. Part of the UncommonGoods spiritual collection.

Jenny Gaynor

location

California

Jenny Gaynor, a Los Angeles-based artist known for her airy, almost ethereal glass creations seeks to provide meaning to the things we touch everyday, thus creating handmade pieces of jewelry and art. Using her exceptional skills deriving from years of training under world-renown glass artists in Murano, Italy, Gaynor's vision to defeat redundancy has made her succeed in creating something that is truly unique.

Gaynor began working with glass in 1999 at Tulane University in New Orleans and got her Masters in Art Therapy at Southern Illinois University. She broadened her skills from glassblowing to lampworking, and with an insatiable desire to improve her proficiency, Gaynor spent several summers in Murano, Italy studying with the masters at the Abate Zanetti School of Glass and at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2003 Jenny used her art therapy background to develop a children's program while in Murano. The program is still part of the annual curriculum at the Abate Zanetti School of Glass today. The marriage of her background as an art therapist and glass artist is beautifully portrayed in the use of symbolism in her art.

Gaynor's past accomplishments also include production glass blowing for Nuance Glass Studio in New Orleans, LA and Third Degree Glass Factory in St. Louis, MO where she also spent two years teaching glassblowing and lampworking.

Gaynor's vision is conveyed through the transparent quality of the glass medium itself. She fabricates all the glass components on her torch using the traditional Muranese lampworking technique and combines them with sparkling semi-precious gemstones. Whether in her lampwork jewelry or newly introduced custom photo transfer vases, her final products are a whimsical, charming, truly one of a kind piece of art.

All pieces are created by hand in Jenny's studio in Los Angeles, California.

I received this as a gift and within ten minutes of putting it on for the first time the blue glass charm came off the piece attaching it to the chain. Also the chain itself was very thin. A very cute concept but poorly designed.

Was this a gift?:

Yes

Bottom LineNo, I would not recommend this to a friend

Merchant response:We apologize for your experience with the Glass Spirituality Necklace. We have faith in our jewelry, and you must have received a defective piece. Our Customer Service Team will gladly assist you with a replacement necklace; just give them a call at 888.365.0056 or email help@uncommongoods.com.